6920 US Highway 1
Vero Beach, FL 32967

The subject property consists of a citrus packing house facility that contains a total of approximately 65,000 + square feet of gross building area. The subject improvements are legally permitted within the CH, Heavy Commercial zoning district. Parking required is one space per 500 square feet of building area, although the previous site plan reviewed on the subject property indicated that the parking requirement was only 1 space per 1,000 square feet for buildings over 30,000 square feet in size. This may be due to some grand-fathering. Nevertheless, the subject property has ample areas for parking and staging of tractor trailers. These items are required based on current zoning regulations. Therefore, the subject improvements are considered to be non-conforming, but are typically allowed to continue as a grand-fathered use. These deficiencies don't seriously affect the functioning of the property as a citrus packing house and other area packing houses of this age have similar characteristics. The subject is located within a commercial/light industrial strip neighborhood along the U.S.#1 Commercial Corridor that extends from just north of the City of Vero Beach, northward to the City of Sebastian. The subject is located in the south central portion of the neighborhood, adjacent to the northeast corner of U.S. #1 and 69th Street. The neighborhood's south boundary is the City of Vero Beach. The western boundary is the Florida East Coast Railroad, which parallels U.S. Highway #1 from Sebastian to Vero Beach.The eastern boundary of the neighborhood is delineated by those properties fronting along the east side of U.S. Highway #1. The City of Sebastian provides the northern boundary of the overall neighborhood. Primary access to and through the neighborhood is via U.S. Highway #1, a four lane state highway with a grassed median strip. U.S. #1 provides the major mainland connection between Vero Beach and Sebastian and portions have been widened to six lanes. The traffic on this arterial route is generally moderate in the subject neighborhood, being less intense than in downtown Sebastian, or Vero Beach.